9 Sep 1945

China
  • USS Nashville, as flagship for RAdm C. Turner Joy's Task Force 73, arrived on station at Shanghai, China to start 2 months of Yangtze River Patrols. ww2dbase [Nashville | Huangpu River, Shanghai | DS]
14 Nov 1945

China
  • USS Nashville departed Shanghai, China bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with 449 Army and Navy officers and men for transportation to the United States as part of Operation Magic Carpet. ww2dbase [Nashville | Huangpu River, Shanghai | DS]

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